Monday, July 27, 2020

LDS Church has a test to discern good, and bad spirits

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Mormonism, even in its more modern version today, does firmly believe in the visitations of spirits, good and bad, as well as resurrect...
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Tuesday, June 16, 2020

A Mormon dissident in Nauvoo - The Writings of Oliver H. Olney

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Review by Doug Gibson Until recently, not many interested in Mormon history knew of Oliver H. Olney. Now, at least 170 years after his ...
Thursday, June 4, 2020

The Thieves of Summer captures life in long ago Salt Lake City

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Review by Doug Gibson In 2014, Signature Books is released a novel, “ The Thieves of Summer ,” drafted by Linda Sillitoe just before...
Sunday, May 17, 2020

Uncle Will and the Fitzgerald Curse, a review

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Review and musings by Doug Gibson The late Utah-born author John D. Fitzgerald is certainly not a household name, but many of his books...
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Sunday, May 10, 2020

Hamblin biography captures the many talents of the 'apostle to the Indians'

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Review by Doug Gibson Add early Mormon explorer/colonizer/missionary Jacob Hamblin to the list of excellent biographies of early Mor...
Sunday, May 3, 2020

176 years ago, preacher convinced many Christ was about to return

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I read “ America 1844: Religious Fervor, Westward Expansion, and the Presidential Election that Transformed the Nation .” The book,...
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Thursday, April 23, 2020

LDS doctrine on children who die fulfills a primal desire

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The second-hardest thing I have ever done is hold my infant son in my arms and watch Ray die. The hardest task for my wife and me were...
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